Hussain Nadim

Hussain Nadim is the Director of South Asia Study Group at the University of Sydney where he is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate. He has previously served in senior advisory roles in the Government of Pakistan on matters of security, development and foreign policy. He was recently the Senior Pakistan Expert at the United States Institute of Peace, and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. For his work in the security and development sector he was listed by ForbesMagazine as a global leader in law and policy under the age of 30.

The initial strong showing by ISIS in the warzone and its ability to set up a Khilafah prompted a ramping up of its media campaign that drew 30,000 fighters from the West who pledged to fight for the establishment of an Islamic state.

Europe is under attack and each successive terrorist attack widens societal divides, sends radicalisation and hate soaring, and makes saner voices inaudible as the hawks shout for war. Such is the nature of terrorism: it sets societies spinning in a vicious cycle of fear and sporadic violence.

The Middle East is undergoing drastic geopolitical change, and the impact is not restricted to within its geographical boundaries. The Afghanistan-Pakistan and South Asia regions are the first to feel the pressure from the events in the Middle East.